FenexOrg wrote:There is one question that has been plaguing me for the past couple of minutes that I just have to share with all of you.

When does romance cross the line into becoming hornyposting?

I mean, if your content -be it drawing or writing- inches towards NSFW, it's probably crossed the line.

June 14, 2021

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Drongonia wrote:

FenexOrg wrote:There is one question that has been plaguing me for the past couple of minutes that I just have to share with all of you.

When does romance cross the line into becoming hornyposting?

When they do anything sexual I'd say

What if they reproduce using mind waves?

Menschlicher Sternenstaat wrote:

Las Palmeras wrote:I always thought that MT started with splitting the atom for weapons or energy. Several power scales seem to put that as a tier identifier or requisite.

I'd consider the Atomic Era a grey zone; any shit WWII and before it is definitely PT though.

Oh yeah! The Green Revolution as a marker.

FenexOrg wrote:There is one question that has been plaguing me for the past couple of minutes that I just have to share with all of you.

When does romance cross the line into becoming hornyposting?

"If you can't visualize it in a PG-13 movie, it doesn't belong here" seems to be the rough guideline.

Austria-Bohemia-Hungary wrote:Woke take: Insert-Era-T are too vague terms to be employed more than as some generic term, which at times misleads posters into joining an rp not fit for them.

Easy, just join RP and use tech of RP.
Want to fight Roman legions, give your soldiers bronze daggers, etc.
Edit: Been denied RPs based on this prejudicial assumption on NS which I dare say is also Cliche.

It's always tricky business, trying to dehornify the earliest form of hornyposting: mythology

Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Alternate 1900's Germany
- Overpowered Tech (Sort of me)
- Nations designed to be as evil as possible
- Animal Farm/Nations ran by animals
- Splatoon nations [Down 2 shots if your capital is Inkopolis]
- Some form of messed up Sweden
- "Deus Vult"/Crusader themed nations
- Furry nations
- Autarky yet modernized isolationist small island nations

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- Confederate states of some sort
- FT Spacers (I fall into this category)
- Nordic takeover (I fall into this one too)
- Meme nations
- OP leader nations
- Utopian anarchy
- Pokémon nations
- 'Glitchy' flags [Down an extra shot if you have binary code in your factbook]
- Unexplained magical powers

Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Soviet nations
- Anime nations
- Nations with only a military factbook
- Catgirls
- The Kim-Jong-Success/Evil dictators with somehow spotless and obedient nations
- World superpower/Strongest nation in their universe (For me, on Earth yes. In space, no. I might down half a cup!)

Destyntine wrote:Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Alternate 1900's Germany
- Overpowered Tech (Sort of me)
- Nations designed to be as evil as possible
- Animal Farm/Nations ran by animals
- Splatoon nations
- Some form of messed up Sweden
- "Deus Vult"
- Furry nations

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- Confederate states of some sort
- FT Spacers (I fall into this category)
- Nordic takeover (I fall into this one too)
- Meme nations
- OP leader nations
- Utopian anarchy
- Pokémon nations
- 'Glitchy' flags

Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Soviet nations
- Anime nations
- Nations with only a military factbook
- Catgirls
- The Kim-Jong-Success/Evil dictators with somehow spotless and obedient nations

Damn, no shots for me

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Destyntine wrote:Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Alternate 1900's Germany
- Overpowered Tech (Sort of me)
- Nations designed to be as evil as possible
- Animal Farm/Nations ran by animals
- Splatoon nations
- Some form of messed up Sweden
- "Deus Vult"
- Furry nations

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- Confederate states of some sort
- FT Spacers (I fall into this category)
- Nordic takeover (I fall into this one too)
- Meme nations
- OP leader nations
- Utopian anarchy
- Pokémon nations
- 'Glitchy' flags

Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Soviet nations
- Anime nations
- Nations with only a military factbook
- Catgirls
- The Kim-Jong-Success/Evil dictators with somehow spotless and obedient nations

Not necessarily in the same nation, but 11 shots and 2 cups.

June 14, 2021

Yorwick Daily: Kingly Heere takes Sanct James. Nahowland gives up the Crig in Miscitoland after nearly half a year of fighting. | Spanning breaks out between the Gemeanwealth and China when HMS Siegfried sinks down 3 Chineish boats wrongfully sailing in Angledanish waters near Eadwardhaven. | OFN's General Forsamling sheds to 'deal with the Crisis in Indey'. Japan, the Danelaw, New England give the Farmers' regearing in Indey a Lastsay until July 1 to give up to the Regearingstrue in Hyderabad "or else." | Gang Shao, China's President comes out ill with a deadly shape of forstanderscrab. Loremen warn that an Eld of Criglords may be forthcoming in China if Shao dies before naming an erfollower.

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Overpowered Tech - Yes
- Nations ran by animals - Kumiho Clade qualifies, as do some other habs.
- Furry nations - See above.

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- FT Spacers - Yes
- Meme nations - Sorta, Qhevak was inspired by weird accelerationist political compass memes.
- Utopian anarchy - Yes

Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Anime nations - I use a bunch of anime images for characters so sorta?
- Catgirls - We got 'em.

8 shots and 2 full cups

meme nations built on being Quirky And Random™ who inevitably end up on my ignore list for how irksome they are.

Destyntine wrote:Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Some form of messed up Sweden*

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- Nordic takeover (I fall into this one too)

Surprised I didn’t fall into more of these cliches.
*Blanjiland isn’t a messed up Sweden, but we do share a universe with one.

I think a good addition to this list would be world hegemon/superpower, whether it’s economic/cultural/military, this nation seems to get special attention from other countries and follow their guidance blindingly. Blanjiland falls under this category as its world’s largest economy.

The inverse of this is also pretty common, with the cliche nation in question being pretty irrelevant on the world stage, but still gets overwhelming attention from their world’s superpowers. I find this less annoying because this was basically the norm during the Cold War, but it’s still a cliche nonetheless.

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Destyntine wrote:Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Noticeably cliché but not crazy common: (One shot if you fall into any of these)
- Overpowered Tech (Sort of me)
- Nations designed to be as evil as possible
- Animal Farm/Nations ran by animals
- "Deus Vult"

Cliché but not THAT cliché: (Two shots for these)
- OP leader nations

Decided to fill this out; six shots total:
OPTech(Vaguely, the Black Kingdom makes heavy use of magitech powered by primordial anti-magic ooze).
Evil Nations(Not deliberately, but I am deliberately designing TBK to be a brutal place).
Animal Farm(Bugs)
Deus Vult(I'm assuming crusaders? Yes, vaguely)
OP Leader(Leader is a God that's consumed their arch enemy and had their power level boosted beyond 9000)

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Destyntine wrote:Thought I'd just throw some nation styles I've noticed to be a tad bit cliché, I probably fall into a few of these..

Let's see...

- I'd say sort of on the OP tech... I'd like to think that it's not OP, but contextually it probably is. I try to punch a little over my own weight by being strategic with deployment of technology, but that's sort of hard to guage.
- Similarly, my country isn't designed to be as evil as possible, but it is supposed to be as evil (in a "paved with good intentions" kind of way) as I could actually justify being without being a moustache-twirling cartoon character.

-My leader is definitely OP at this point, if only because I haven't gotten around to getting some depth into the character. So, perfect by consequence of lack of thought-out flaws I guess...

-I'm not a Soviet nation anymore, but I did start out as a transparent soviet parody and I still retain some of the birthmarks of that, along with some convergences as a socialist country in a broadly Leninist tradition.
-Like my leader, I haven't gotten into a whole lot of depth into the opposition to my political system beyond "they exist" so everything looks a lot nicer than it would actually be because of that.

Crysuko wrote:meme nations built on being Quirky And Random™ who inevitably end up on my ignore list for how irksome they are.

I'm Not Like Other Nations^tm.

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Destyntine wrote:Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Catgirls

F7 Cliché:

Destyntine wrote:- Alternate 1900's Germany

I want an anti-drink for being an unironic Ouiaboo that makes France humiliate Germany twice.

Las Palmeras wrote:

Destyntine wrote:Quite cliché: (Down a whole cup)
- Catgirls

F7 Cliché:

Destyntine wrote:- Alternate 1900's Germany

I want an anti-drink for being an unironic Ouiaboo that makes France humiliate Germany twice.

OIUABOO.

You are a pun master.

But here is your anti-drink thingie. It's berry flavored.

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catgirls are so overdone, when are we getting dogboys

Zeloria wrote:catgirls are so overdone, when are we getting dogboys

And Snake girls? *Trying to hide Remulian Cat girls*

Western Fardelshufflestein wrote:You are a pun master.

But here is your anti-drink thingie. It's berry flavored.

Thanks! But I can't claim credit for the punny joke. I've seen it float around WW2-related subreddits, /a/ and /int/ before.

Zeloria wrote:catgirls are so overdone, when are we getting dogboys

But muh feliform hyena-girls . I just don't wanna admit they're hyenas because...eh...let's just say that biology can be the butt of jokes.

Kiu Ghesik wrote:the catboy liberation front, never forget

I want to make androgynous crossderssing catboys part of my special forces. No kidding. Going for that Operation Spring of Youth vibe.

Remulia wrote:

Zeloria wrote:catgirls are so overdone, when are we getting dogboys

And Snake girls? *Trying to hide Remulian Cat girls*

Monster girls in general are a thing, but less so here

Harpies, lamia, centaurs, nekos.
I need to develop this factbook more so that people can stop taking this out of context...